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Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

> […] I was asking [Python] if a datetime instance was an instance of a
> date. Which, it turns out, it is.

Yep. Makes sense, since ‘datetime’ can do everything ‘date’ can do, and
is conceptually a subset of the same concept.

The same is not true of the ‘time’ type from that module, by the way; it
does not represent a specific point on the timeline. So ‘datetime’
inheriting from ‘time’ wouldn't make sense. Just in case anyone was
wondering.

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